It’s hard for me to believe these words but I pushed Sidekiq’s first commit on Jan 16th, 2012. Ten years ago. The public announcement. One month later. One quarter later.

Some context for those new to this blog: Sidekiq is the most popular background job system for the Ruby programming language. Every application has tasks which are important: send an email, charge a credit card, reserve inventory for an order, synchronize some data to a 3rd party service, etc. By making these background jobs, you automatically get error handling and retry, easy scaling across multiple machines, a monitoring UI and lots more.

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